NYU Student Creates Burrito-Making Robot

A graduate student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts has built a burrito-building robot called "Burritob0t" that uses large syringes to inject beans, salsa, guacamole, and other ingredents onto tortillas, layer by layer.

"The only thing I enjoy more than making cool stuff is making a good burrito," interaction designer and Brooklyn resident Marko Manriquez said in a video about his robot. "The burrito lends itself perfectly as a hybrid of both cuisine and technology."

More testing of Burritob0t — which isn't available to the public yet — will test the limits of food science, Manriquez said in the video.

"There's no reason we can't have our burritos downloaded, printed and into our bellies," he said. "We have the technology."

A Kickstarter campaign is in the works to raise funds to publicly demonstrate Burritob0t and improve the taste of its burritos, Manriquez said on the site, but he admitted it's tough for a robot to match a real chef.

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